28 Things You Learn When You Move In Together

Sharing an itty-bitty living space isn’t easy—but for most of us (existing here in the real estate market of 2014), it’s a necessity. In college, we learn to live with strangers. Slightly further into college, we learn to live with friends. Next, some of us eventually choose to live with our more-than-friends. Though gender stereotypes and clichés apply less than they’ve been advertised on shows like Everybody Loves Raymond (both boyfriends and girlfriends eat all the leftovers, both boyfriends and girlfriends leave lights on), the big launch into relationship-cohabitation is fraught a new set of to-dos and to-don’ts. So which lessons are important to know before going in (and remember like your life depends on it)?